Chapter 174: The Legend of Bai Shangshu (1)
One day, the "Bigfoot Nun" came home to see her mother. Her mother said, "You watch the door for me at home, and I'll go to a relative." Unexpectedly, it suddenly rained heavily, and her mother was intercepted at a relative's house.
The "bigfoot nun" was alone at home, and when she saw that it was getting late, she draped a tarpaulin and went to the gate to close the door. Seeing a young scholar squatting in the doorway, he asked why, so he let him go to the north room, made dinner for him, and then sent him to live in the west wing.
This scholar who sheltered from the rain in the gate hole was Bai Shangshu's father, Mr. Bai. Mr. Bai is the third in the family, known as Bai Laosan.
This white old man is smart by nature, loves to read, and wants to take the exam for an official and a half-job. His two older brothers were very supportive of him, and in order to let him study with peace of mind, they took care of all the farm work and household chores.
It's just that his father, Old Lady Bai, doesn't quite agree. Old lady Bai is a feng shui gentleman who looks at the tomb. He said: "There is no feng shui for officials in our cemetery, so you can't force it!" ”
Bai Laosan didn't believe it, so he had to try. Old lady Bai didn't say anything else.
This year's big exam in Beijing, Bai Laosan packed his luggage and went on the road. When I went out, the weather was good, and when I arrived at the end of the day, it suddenly rained heavily, so I went to the door of the family to take shelter from the rain.
It rained heavily all afternoon, and it didn't stop at night. Seeing that a nun had come to close the door and explain the reason, she followed up in the house.
Under the shadow of the lamp, Bai Laosan peeked at the nun and was stunned. I thought to myself: "There is such an ugly woman in the world!" ”
Seeing that there was only such a nun in the family, I felt very cramped. After only eating a few bites of food, under the guidance of the "big-footed nun", he went to sleep in the west wing.
The next day, when the rain stopped, Bai Laosan thanked him and raised his feet to leave.
The "big-footed nun" was reluctant, pulled down her face and said angrily: "Seeing that you are a person who reads and understands, I just left you to stay overnight." You just went out of my house so innocently, what kind of reputation did you make me?"
Bai Laosan thought: Indeed. Although we insist on "men and women do not kiss", but such a nun and a young man live in the same courtyard, and there is no third person to testify, how can people explain it clearly?
Although she is ugly, she has a kind heart. Otherwise, I don't know where to go this night? When it comes to this, why don't I make a lifelong deal with her, and live up to the love of staying overnight. So, he told the "bigfoot nun" about his idea.
The "big-footed nun" was willing, so she nodded shyly and happily sent Bai Laosan on the road.
Bai Laosan walked for a few days and arrived at the examination room. After three games, he didn't even rank up. Since then, the idea of being an examiner has been dispelled.
After returning home, he told his father, Mrs. Bai, about the engagement in the rain on the road. Old lady Bai heard that the woman was a nun, and she was very ugly, so she didn't want to do it.
Bai Laosan saw that he couldn't say no, so he secretly got involved with the "bigfoot nun".
Suppress the murderer in the abdomen
Bai Shangshu's grandfather saw the tomb very accurately, and he was very famous in the local area. His three sons asked him, "You look at feng shui so well for others, why don't you show us a good cemetery?" ”
Old lady Bai sighed, shook his head and said, "There are good feng shui, I don't think you have that blessing, I'm afraid you can't afford it!" ”
"Not necessarily. Maybe with good feng shui, there will also be good fortune. Why not give it a try? The three sons said in unison.
Old Man Bai pondered for a long time and said, "Our alfalfa land is a treasure of feng shui. Whoever of you brothers can sleep there for the night, the land will belong to you. If any of you will set up a grave there, his descendants will be a ruler. If not, then our family doesn't have that blessing. ”
When the brother heard this, his hair exploded. Everybody knows that the land is very unclean. In the dead of night, it's haunted.
Some say they have seen white hair and a long tongue, and some say they have seen green fangs. Although the legends vary, it is a fact that two rice farmers froze to death there. For this reason, no one wanted to work in that field, so they had to plant alfalfa.
In order to try their fortunes, the eldest and his wife still went hard.
In the middle of the night, I heard the shouts of people, the sound of drums, gongs and suona in the distance. The sound grew louder and louder.
A voice said, "Why is there a human smell here?" ”
Another voice said, "Go, go and see, tie them up and take them away." ”
Frightened, the two of them hurriedly ran home.
The next night, the two of them also went hard. I heard the same sound and didn't sleep until dawn.
On the third day, it was the turn of the third child, that is, Bai Shangshu's father. Bai Laosan was even more frightened when he saw that his two brothers were frightened back in the middle of the night.
If you don't go, you won't give up. So he secretly called the "big-footed nun" as a companion.
At this time, the "big-footed nun" was already pregnant with Bai Shangshu. The two slept until midnight, and they also heard the sound of people's shouts, drums, gongs, and suona.
A voice said, "Why is there a human smell here?" ”
Another voice said, "Don't say anything, Bai Ye is here,"
The first voice added, "It's no fun to scare him." In that case, let's stop making a fuss."
The second voice said, "Good! Let's go back right away."
Then, nothing was heard. Here they slept peacefully all night.
After dawn, Bai Laosan returned home happily. The family asked him, "You slept alone in the field?" Bai Laosan was forced to be helpless, so he told all the things about getting along with the "bigfoot nun" and asking her to be his companion.
When Mrs. Bai heard him say this, she decided that the "bigfoot nun" was a blessed person, so she agreed to their marriage. Choosing a good day and an auspicious day has become a great gift for them.
Immediately become an officer
Mrs. Bai Lao San was pregnant for ten months, and one day, she suddenly felt pain in her abdomen, and she was about to give birth.
At that time, it was raining heavily, and I couldn't go to the midwife, so the family was so anxious that the family went around.
Mrs. Bai Lao said to the baby in her womb: "Child, if you are filial, you will come to this world smoothly and smoothly, so as to avoid the pain of giving birth to your mother." After saying that, it really didn't hurt, and I felt a turn in my abdomen, and a white and chubby boy was born standing on the ground after stepping down first.
This is the later Bai Shangshu.
It turned out that Bai Shangshu was extremely filial, he heard his mother tell him to "be obedient" and come down, thinking that standing and being born was "obedient and obedient", so he turned the fetal position and came to the world.
According to the custom of the time, a boy should be planted with a red cloth at the gate to prevent outsiders from visiting the door, so as not to bring in the wild wind and cause the baby to die.
Bai Laosan's mother saw that she had a big fat grandson, and she was so overjoyed that she hurriedly went to the gate to insert red cloth strips in the rain.
On this day, Yiwen and Yiwu were going to the south to take office, but when it rained heavily, they happened to rush to the gate of Bai Shangshu's house to take refuge.
When he saw the old lady coming to insert the red cloth, he asked, "Old lady, what kind of child did you add?" ”
The old lady said happily, "I have added a grandson." ”
The two said: "Your grandson is very blessed. When he came, we raised two people to guard the door for him, and it seems that this child will have at least seven official seats in the future. ”
The old lady thought that there were many officials and few officials, so she said modestly: "Thanks to the two auspicious words, seven grades are not seven grades, and it is enough to have one or two grades." ”
Later, Bai Shangshu really became a first-class Shangshu and ascended the throne with Emperor Wanli in his arms. Because he was born upright, in the area of Jianjin Prefecture, there has always been a saying that "Hengsheng Niangzi Lisheng Official".
Children are a sign of omen
When Bai Shangshu was a child, he showed extraordinary divine might.
Bai Shangshu was young, and his family was poor. He grew up in his grandmother's house in Feng Village. From his grandmother's house to the school, he had to pass in front of the Land Temple.
One night, Bai Shangshu's teacher had a dream in which a white-bearded old man said to him, "I am the Lord of the Land." Don't tell your students to leave in front of my temple. I'm so old and I still have a lot to do. I picked him up every day and sent him away, but I couldn't do it. ”
The first night, the teacher didn't care; The second and third nights had the same dream. The teacher can't stand up. He said to his students, "Don't go to and from school in front of the Land Temple, walk behind the temple. ”
The other students listened to the teacher's words and walked down the shady path behind the Land Temple.
Bai Shangshu was not convinced. I thought: Walking on the avenue and not breaking the law, people walk like this, why don't we let our children go! I'll go to the front of the temple to see what you can do to me!
So, he still went to and from school in front of the Land Temple. His teacher also continued to dream of the land lord's complaint. In order to find out the truth, the teacher secretly observed it after school.
At first glance, it was Bai Shangshu. I know that this child will have a future in the future. The teacher didn't say anything badly. called Bai Shangshu to his house and told him about the dream of the land lord. Tell him not to go to the temple in the future.
As soon as Bai Shangshu heard that it was the land lord who sued him, he was angry. A flail was tied with straw, and the words "eight hundred catties" were written on it, and it was put on the head of the land lord.
The land lord couldn't stand it, and asked his teacher to say in a dream: "Your student put an eight-hundred-pound flail on me, I can't stand it, wow, you let him take it off for me!" ”
The teacher felt that the dream was strange, and walked to the land temple to take a look, and saw that there was indeed a square frame tied with straw on the head of the land lord, and a note of "eight hundred catties" was pinned to it. The teacher said in his heart, "That's it, I'll take it down for you." "So I took the box down.
At night, the teacher had another dream, and the land lord in the dream said to the teacher with a sad face, "If you take it down, it won't count, and you have to ask your students to take it off for me." ”
After dawn, the teacher put the straw box on the head of the land lord again, led Bai Shangshu to the land temple, and asked him to pick it off for the land lord himself.
Bai Shangshu was very angry when he saw that the land lord had sued him again. He said to the land temple: "Land land, send you Yunnan to see millet grass." If you want to come back, you'll have to wait for me to go. In this way, he sent the land lord of Feng Village to Yunnan.